Trying to learn how understand Mental illness part 1

 Trying to understand Mental illness is trying to understand all types of Mental illnesses but there is more to it than that as in learning about people who face them. 

Why do they feel as they feel?

Why do they think as they do?

What do they behave, react and interact as they do?

When facing illness people are mostly facing the negative where we need to work to empower the positive.

Remember it is about the person not about us so they have rights to their choices.

At the same time we can come out with suggestions but we have no rights to force on them what we suggest, it is down to them to try whatever themselves or not, even though they don't know unless they do try.

The way they feel could be they are feeling sad or angerly etc a lot and we need to explore why and how we can support or and treat them. 

As counselors, therapists, emotional supporters, Mental health nurses, etc, you need to explore what they are feeling, why, how can you support and treat or and how someone, somewhere can who, what you may suggest or and referral the person to, empower them to try what does and doesn't work for them. 

In most cases, you may not be able to make them feel 100 percent with your session, but maybe better than they were. Remember your only trained, qualified, etc in so much and your workplace is only likely to allow so much. You need to help the person understand you only do what you can but you won't leave them without further support.  This depends on what your workplace allows where say if they have been on a six months program they may allow them to resign up again or and they have to receive support else were or and they may or may be able to come back, which may depend on funding etc. 

(CBT) Which is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, which treats or and supports such Mental illnesses as  Anxiety and Depression. Where you try to empower them to think from negative to positive. Depending on the esteem of their Mental health how unhappy, angerly, etc they are, what situation they are facing or no situation at all meaning it can happen where they are feeling negative for no reason even. It doesn't mean the support and treatment are all in your hands but for them depending on the problem etc and how sensitive they are etc, it could take a long or short time till they feel themselves again. 

You may ask how can we help people who feel negative a lot without a reason? Fair enough question. When that happens, there's no situation, no thoughts but there are emotions, when they could feeling, sad, unhappy low a lot, this could be even they may spend time on their own, which is not a necessary fault, mainly at the moment even lockdown has eased a bit but a lot of people still have not got their old lives back again for example or and they may feel anxious, angry, etc, which could be. 

Anxiety is when someone worries or and fears a lot over the same or and different things where they can overthink, overreact without meaning to. This is because we suggest gaging what is a small or big problem for eg; and how important something is to sort as soon as possible.  What probley seems very tiny to you, seems huge to us. Never say you're making a mountain out of a molehill for eg; as many of us feel as if others think we are doing it on purpose, which is not true as I said important things we tend to want to sort right away as we are concerned been too late etc. 

Example; This could be over money worries, benefits, housing problems, relationships, marriages, divorces, deaths of people we know, funeral costs, etc. 

Anger is pretty much like sadness, a reaction to the situation but then the person could also feel anxious and or fear of something within the situation, which may well could them to overthink, even overact to a point they even struggle to sleep.  

To how to support or and treat anxiety and anger, even unhappiness too, you need to learn how to try to understand it. Let's start off with Anxiety which is https://passageswomen.com/counseling-for-anxiety/